Cosmetic applicator



FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the cosmeticapplicator;

FIG. 2 is a top view of the cosmetic applicator shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a side view of the cosmetic applicator shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is an opposite side view of the cosmetic applicator shown in FIG.1;

FIG. 5 is a bottom view of the cosmetic applicator shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a left end view of the cosmetic applicator shown in FIG. 3,and,

FIG. 7 is a right end view of the cosmetic applicator shown in FIG. 3.

The present article is a cosmetic applicator used for applying cosmeticssuch as mascara. It can fit, for example, with a neck portion of acontainer in which a liquid cosmetic material is stored. A brush part ofthe present article is composed of a large number of bristles helicallyfixed between two twisted metal core wires. The exterior profile of thebrush part is indicated by dashed lines. The brush part has anapproximately hexagonal shape when viewed from the end as from FIG. 6composed of one arc and five straight lines. The brush part isconfigured such that the approximately hexagonal sections arecontinuously arranged in the axial direction except the tip portion, andadjacent hexagonal sections are displaced in the same rotationaldirection. The part indicated by solid lines is the part for which thedesign patent is requested, while the parts drawn in phantom indicate anenvironmental structure that forms no part of the design to be patented.

CLAIM The ornamental design for a cosmetic applicator, as shown anddescribed.